The Community Schools of Frankfort Board of Education unanimously approved a one-year contract agreement with the Frankfort Education Association Tuesday night. This comes on the heels of the two sides reaching a tentative agreement two weeks ago.
“I think the brevity of our board meeting tonight shows just how overwhelmingly supportive the board is with our teachers union to be able to help attract and maintain teachers by getting everybody to the right spot on their salary schedule,” said Superintendent Dr. Matt Rhoda.
The special meeting lasted six minutes.
During the earlier meeting in the month, Rhoda said the salary schedule had become unaligned with the experience and years of education for many educators in the corporation, which became a priority for the administration and board to fix during this year’s negotiations.
To help with that, the Board unanimously passed approving supplemental stipends of $1,000 each for eight teachers.
“Our teachers who are either at the top of the pay column in the bachelor’s degree column, which is around $65,000, or they have their master’s degree and they’re at the $72,000,” said Rhoda. “Since we did not increase both ends, those teachers did not get a salary increase.”